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Originally Posted by StoOgE
The idea that Nashville feels safer than Austin tells me some of y'all haven't been to Nashville.
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Yep. Austin had 48 murders in 2020 - the highest since 1991 when we had 49. There were 35 in 2019 and 2018. Nashville had 109 murders in 2020. That's up from the 84 they had in 2019 and 88 in 2018. So, yeah.
Austin - 950,807 city population - 2019 - 319 square miles - 48 murders in 2020.
Nashville - 694,144 city population - 2019 - 504 square miles - 109 murders in 2020.
Even adjusting for Nashville's larger city proper area and adding the metro numbers for Austin in a 5 county area that covers 4,280 square miles, we still only had 68 in the metro.